Accompanying our festival fashion fatigue is the exhausting proliferation of street style photos that accompany/perpetuate it: endless galleries of conventionally pretty, skinny girls clad in similar fringe or slides or whatever else happens to be on trend that season. With few exceptions—Bill Cunningham at the Times,… »6/08/15 12:30pm 6/08/15 12:30pm

British quartet Clean Bandit played a rain-soaked set on day 2 of BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend festival in Norwich, UK this weekend, and their performance of “Stronger,” from last year’s debut full-length New Eyes, was diiiivine.»5/26/15 10:50am 5/26/15 10:50am

#Coachella fashion has officially become its own aesthetic. The millions of marketing dollars spent convincing the Youth of America that “festival” is a season and comes with its own dress code actually worked and Beyoncé, who would ideally be impervious to this corporate deception, has been bitten by the… »4/12/15 3:15pm 4/12/15 3:15pm

Anyone who was at Lollapalooza 2012, when a massive storm shut the festival down for hours and people dangerously flooded into the streets of downtown Chicago with no direction or purpose, knows life doesn't get much worse than that when it comes to music festivals. But for the average Lollapalooza attendee, the… »3/27/15 2:30pm 3/27/15 2:30pm

In today's Tweet Beat, Patrick Stewart discovers the pains of treading through a muddy field as girls in flower crowns and the men that love them pop Molly, Josh Duhamel gets a wonderful or terrible gift—depending on how you look at it and Nick Jonas plays coy. »8/11/14 7:30pm 8/11/14 7:30pm

A Canadian music festival is asking attendees to please, for the love of God, not wear any Native American headdresses. Save the clueless cultural appropriation for another day. "Feathered war bonnets" and anything that looks like one are now banned. Security will be enforcing the rule. »7/25/14 11:00am 7/25/14 11:00am

Music festivals used to be a place for people to gather to listen to their favorite bands, make some love in the mud and maybe get stabbed to death by the Hells Angels, but sadly, those wholesome days are over. These days, festivals (and their attendees) are less focused on enjoying music in a communal space and more… »4/04/14 5:45pm 4/04/14 5:45pm

So you're going to Coachella this weekend, next weekend or some hypothetical weekend in the future. (Remember, Coachella is a state of mind so one could potentially go to Coachella any time.) Music festivals, especially when they are as big and trendy as this one, are a tough landscape to navigate etiquette and… »4/11/13 6:50pm 4/11/13 6:50pm